Word: version
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aside and offered him some tender-hearted advice: Reminisce about the old days in Russell, Kansas. Talk about compassionate community as an alternative to centralized bureaucracy. Show a little Dole soul. The Senator seems to be listening. At the last Republican debate in Des Moines, Iowa, Dole did his version of "I feel your pain," saying he understood people on welfare because his own grandparents had been among them...
...several crises. First, its operating software is very old. Most customers believe that Microsoft's Windows 95, available since last August, now matches the general capabilities of Apple's System 7.5. The last major overhaul of the Macintosh operating system--System 7.0, which laid the groundwork for the current version--was late when it was delivered more than five years ago and even then just barely met expectations. The next major overhaul of the Macintosh system, code-named Copland, is due later this year. But many industry experts aren't sure if Apple will be able to deliver the revision...
...foreigners transferred to the U.S. from a company's overseas branches to three years--vs. a five-to-seven-year limit today. To increase the odds that the bill is considered this year, Simpson has cannily tied it to a more popular measure combatting illegal immigration. A softer version cleared the House Judiciary Committee last October...
Inside BETA's one-story control room, a workstation displays patterns of green and red spikes; lights blink on a bank of small computers; and needles flutter on glowing dials. From a stereo amplifier comes a static-filled hiss, the audio version of radio waves piped directly from the antenna above. The display amuses graduate student Darren Leigh, hard at work debugging a BETA computer program. "We do a few things here for the tourists," he explains. "Camera crews love this stuff...
...This was Simpson doing what he does best--selling himself--and it flopped. BET, which promised a "no-holds-barred" interview, was trying to polish its reputation as a news operation. Simpson's goal was to hawk the $29.95 home video in which he gives his own version of the night when Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were butchered. Simpson reached out to BET because none of the networks or major cable operations would air ads for the tape--never mind that these same outlets scored some of their highest ratings by thumping the Trial of the Century...